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Layla Marie Lawlor

I live in Fox, Alaska: an unincorporated spot on the map about 11 miles north of Fairbanks. In the summer, we have 90-degree weather with nearly 24 hours of daylight; in the winter, -50F is not uncommon and the sun barely creeps above the horizon. Our house is build on old gravel tailings from strip-mining for gold at the turn of the century. An old telegraph line from the same era runs across the back of our property. Eleven miles south of us, you will find Fairbanks, a town of 40,000 people with Wal-Mart, urban congestion and a 20,000 circulation daily newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, where I am the supervisor in the layout department.

I was born in Alaska -- in a small log cabin that had been built by a trapper after World War II and then rebuilt by my parents when they moved to the woods to try a rural-hippie lifestyle in 1975. (My mother still lives there, though not in the same house -- it burned down when I was 8 months old when the blanket they were using for a door blew against the stove.) I was homeschooled and we had no electricity or running water. I moved to Fairbanks when I graduated from high school to attend UAF, where I met my husband Orion Lawlor, now a faculty member in the computer science department. We lived in Champaign, Illinois for four years while he got his PhD and then moved back in 2004.

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Contact address:
2380 Steese Highway
Fairbanks, AK 99712

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